Event Calendar 2019

7 Jan. 2019, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Bioinformatics: Algorithms that make it possible to analyse billions of DNA sequences

At this DIKU Bits lecture Anders Krogh, Professor at Department of Biology & Department of Computer Science, will discuss algorithms that make it possible to analyse billions of DNA sequences.

30 Jan. 2019, 9:30-10:30

Julio Cesar dos Reis: Advancements and Challenges in Cross-Lingual Ontology Alignment

Julio Cesar dos Reis will be visiting DIKU and give a talk during his stay. His talk will be followed by a talk by lávia Santoro on Knowledge-intensive Processes: What comes next?

30 Jan. 2019, 10:30-11:30

Flávia Santoro: Knowledge-intensive Processes: What comes next?

On 30 January Flávia Santoro, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, will present her talk Knowledge-intensive Processes: What comes next?

31 Jan. 2019, 10:00-11:00

Claudia Bauzer Medeiros: Open Science, Open Data – Challenges in Data Sharing across Scientific Domains

​Claudia Bauzer Medeiros will be visiting DIKU and give a talk on Open Science, Open Data – Challenges in Data Sharing across Scientific Domains during her stay​.

4 Feb. 2019, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Registering the big picture in data science

At this DIKU Bits lecture Jon Sporring will demonstrate how image analysis is used for statistical models of ultrastructures in nerve cells and give examples of how we have improved existing and developed new algorithms for image analysis.

8 Feb. 2019, 1:30-4:30

Open House MSc studies at SCIENCE at University of Copenhagen

Are you considering an MSc in Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen? Would you like to know more about the programme?

22 Feb. 2019, 9:00-10:00

MSc Thesis Defence: Jens Egholm Pedersen

On 22 February Jens Egholm Pedersen will defend his thesis on Modelling Neural Learning Systems in Artificial and Spiking Neural Networks.

22 Feb. 2019, 13:00

PhD defence by Aske Mottelson

On 22 February, Aske Mottelson will be defending his PhD thesis "Computer-Cognition Interfaces: Sensing and Influencing Mental Processes with Computer Interaction".

22 Feb. 2019, 13:05-14:00

COPLAS talk: Ahmad Al-Sibahi

COPLAS talk on Probabilistic Programming - Practical Experiences and Challenges in Voucher Processing by Ahmad Al-Sibahi.

6 Mar. 2019, 15:30-18:30

What are tomorrow's security threats from cyberspace - and how do researchers and companies cope?

Join us for an interesting seminar in DIKU Business Club featuring IT Security. The talk is open to all interested people.

14 Mar. 2019, 14:15-15:00

Talk by Martin Atzmueller

On 14 March 2019, Martin Atzmueller, Associate Professor at the Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence at Tilburg University, will give a talk at DIKU entitled "Onto Model-Based Exceptional Pattern Mining on Attributed Interaction Networks".

15 Mar. 2019, 10:30-12:00

MSc Thesis Defence: Raluca Alexandra Fetic

On 15 March Raluca Alexandra Fetic will defend her thesis on Efficient neural encoding of large texts for stance detection.

15 Mar. 2019, 12:15

PhD defence Christopher Ryther

On 15 March, Christopher Ryther will defend his PhD thesis "Complex Temporal Networks: Metrics and embeddings for problems in real world complex networks"

18 Mar. 2019, 10:00-10:45

Talk by Huiling Le

On 18 March Huiling Le, University of Nottingham, will present the talk "Stein's method  for probability measures on manifolds"

18 Mar. 2019, 10:45-11:30

Talk by Xavier Pennec

On 18 March Xavier Pennec, INRIA and University Cote d'Azur (UCA), will present the talk "Geometric Statistics beyond the Riemannian structure and beyond the mean"

18 Mar. 2019, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Motion matching at DADIU: A new paradigm in game animation

At this DIKU Bits talk Morten Pol Engell-Nørregård, Computer Graphics Specialist at the Visual Computing Lab, will present you to the concept of motion matching, which is a new method of doing animation, resulting in better and more responsive animations in computer games.

18 Mar. 2019, 13:15

PhD defence Line Kühnel

On 18 March, Line Kühnel will be defending her PhD thesis "Stochastic Modelling on Manifolds".

19 Mar. 2019, 13:15

PhD defence Jacob Daniel Kirstejn Hansen

On 19 March, Jacob Daniel Kirstejn Hansen will be defending his PhD thesis "Segmentation of Brains and Rocks from Tomographic Reconstructions”.

25 Mar. 2019, 13:00

MSc Thesis Defence: Pernille Emma Hartung Hansen

On 25 March Pernille Emma Hartung Hansen will defend her MSc Thesis "Methods in Geometric Statistics"

26 Mar. 2019, 13:00-17:30

Defence of Doctoral Dissertation: Jean-Yves Moyen

Jean-Yves Moyens will defend his Doctorial Dissertation entitled: Implicit Complexity in Theory and Practice.

28 Mar. 2019, 11:05-12:00

COPLAS Talk: Prem Devanbu

COPENHAGEN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE SEMINAR (COPLAS) TALK:
Naturalness of Software: Science and Applications, by Professor Prem Devanbu, University of California at Davis.

28 Mar. 2019, 14:00-17:00

Double TechTalk on probabilistic programming and empirical software engineering

Join us for a special event - the chance for a double TechTalk and networking hosted by DIKU and DIKU Business Club, featuring prominent speakers: Arun Kamar, Developer at Facebook on HackPPL and Prem Devanbu, Professor at UC Davis.

1 Apr. 2019, 13:00

MSc Thesis Defence: Artem Chupryn

On 1 April Artem Chuprynwill defend hisMSc Thesis "Convolution operator on Riemannian 2-manifold using parallel transport"

3 Apr. 2019, 15:30-18:30

Data ethics in AI research and in society - what's next?

We discuss data ethics - applied to artificial intelligence in research and society. Meet researchers from University of Copenhagen: Peter Sandøe, Sune Holm and Thomas Hildebrandt who all work with the data ethical aspects of research in AI. Meet PhD and CEO in /Kl.7 Mikkel Holm Sørensen, who is a member of the governmental Board of Experts on dataethics. Meet DPOs Kristina Carole Cryne and Janise Wibroe Fabricius from Danske Bank

4 Apr. 2019, 12:30-14:00

Master thesis defense by Andreas Borgstad and Christoffer Thrysøe

On 4 April Andreas Borgstad and Christoffer Thrysøe will defend their master thesis Detecting Roads in Remote Sensing Data Using Deep Learning Method.

5 Apr. 2019, 14:00-15:00

COPLAS and DLT seminar talk: Marlowe - Financial Contracts on Blockchain

On Friday 5 April Simon Thompson, Professor of Logic and Computation at University of Kent, will introduce Marlowe and describe its semantics, implementation and tooling as well as give examples, including some from the ACTUS financial standard.

26 Apr. 2019, 13:05-14:00

COPLAS Talk: Selective Applicative Functors

Selective Applicative Functors, a COPLAS Talk by Simon Marlow, Facebook, London, UK

26 Apr. 2019, 13:15

PhD defence Silas Nyboe Ørting

On Friday 26 April, Silas Nyboe Ørting will defend his PhD thesis entitled: 'Assessing emphysema in CT scans of the lungs using machine learning, crowdsourcing and visual similarity'.

29 Apr. 2019, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Transfer learning to estimate influenza prevalence

On 29 April Ingemar Cox, professor in the Machine Learning section, will present his talk Transfer learning to estimate influenza prevalence.

9 May 2019, 16:00-18:00

Richard Stallman coming to DIKU: Computing, freedom, and privacy

'Computing, freedom, and privacy' is the title of Richard Stallman's lecture at University of Copenhagen hosted by DIKU and DIKU Alumni. This lecture is one of three in Copenhagen, five in Denmark altogether, held by Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation at Danish universities.

13 May 2019, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Augmented Fabrication for End-Users

On 13 May 2019 Daniel Ashbrook will present his talk Augmented Fabrication for End-Users as part of the DIKU Bits seminar series.

14 May 2019, 9:00-10:00

MATH-DIKU Lecture: Arithmetic complexity theory: determinants, permanents and the VP vs. VNP problem

On 14 May, Avi Wigderson, professor at the School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, will give a joint MATH-DIKU lecture.

23 May 2019, 15:00-19:00

IT Career Fair 2019

On 23 May 2019 DIKU Business Club once more opents the doors to students and companies for the annual IT Career Fair. It's a half day's meet and greet and dialogues about job opportunities, career prospects and other collaboration possibilities. 

4 June 2019, 10:00

Talk by Troels Damgaard

On 4 June Troels Damgaard will present the talk Software Architecture in the Wild Abstract.

4 June 2019, 13:15-14:15

Talk by Amit Chopra

On Tuesday 4 June Amit Chopra will present the talk Norms and Protocols: Abstractions for Engineering Decentralized Sociotechnical Systems .

6 June 2019, 13:15

PhD defence: Paul Strohmeier

On 6 June, Paul Strohmeier will defend his PhD thesis entitled Shaping Material Experiences: Designing Vibrotactile Feedback for Active Perception.

7 June 2019, 13:00-17:30

Defence of Doctoral Dissertation: Christina Lioma

Christina Lioma will defend her Doctoral Dissertation entitled Dependencies: Formalising Semantic Catenae for Information Retrieval

17 June 2019, 8:00-17:00

Copenhagen FinTech Week: FinTech Symposium

University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen Fintech host this AI and Blockchain Symposium featuring prominent experts, including a Turing award winner.

13 Aug. 2019, 9:00-16:30

DIKU Security Research Workshop 2019

Are you interested in the latest research in System-level Security and wish to learn more about the technical side? DIKU will be hosting a day filled with technical talks about cutting-edge topics in security research. The workshop will feature leading researchers in Systems-level Security giving scientific talks.

19 Aug. 2019, 9:30-10:30

MSc Thesis Defence: Alexander Richert

On 19 August Alexander Richert will present his MSc Defense on "Design and Implementation of Pessimistic Concurrency Control Methods in ReactDB"

9 Sept. 2019, 9:00-10:00

MSc Thesis defence by Yiran Zhang

On 9 September Yiran Zhang will present the MSc defense on Learned Regularizers in Variational Image Inpainting.

9 Sept. 2019, 10:00-11:00

MSc Thesis defence by Chuang Wu

On 9 September Chuang We will present the MSc Thesis defence on 2D & 3D Segmentation with Similarity Invariant Shape Prior and Smoothness Term.

10 Sept. 2019, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Governmental Workflows driven by DCR Graphs from DCR Solutions & DIKU

On 10 September Thomas Hildebrandt will present his talk on Governmental Workflows driven by DCR Graphs from DCR Solutions & DIKU.

10 Sept. 2019, 15:15

COPLAS talk: Glynn Winskel - Concurrent games and strategies

Professor Glynn Winskel from University of Cambridge will give a COPLAS talk on concurrent games and strategies.

12 Sept. - 27 Sept. 2019

MSc defences

Here you can find the upcoming MSc defences. The list will continuously be updated.

12 Sept. 2019, 15:15

Talk by Glynn Winskel - From probabilistic to quantum strategies

Professor Glynn Winskel will be giving a talk entitled From Probabilistic to Quantum Strategies

20 Sept. 2019, 16:00-19:00

DIKU coding competition and Friday bar with Netcompany and Jobindex

Test your coding skills before the Danish Championships in programming when Netcompany and Jobindex are hosting a combined Friday bar and coding competition as a warm up.

24 Sept. 2019, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Researching Quality of Life of Smartphone-Centric Humans via Human-Centric Methods

On 24 september associate professor Katarzyna Wac will present the DIKU Bits lecture "Pocket-Size Life Quality: Are You Ready for a Call?".

26 Sept. 2019, 13:15

Talk by Janus Friis Nielsen: The Journey of Uber from a Technology Point of View

On 26 September Janus Friis Nielsen, who is a senior software engineer at Uber in Denmark, will deliver a talk.

26 Sept. 2019, 15:30-19:30

DIKU Alumni Day 2019: Security on many levels

We gather DIKU alumni, students and staff as well as members of DIKU Business Club for an afternoon of inspiration, networking, food and drinks.

30 Sept. 2019, 15:15-16:15

Talk by Prof. Carsten Binnig: Towards Interactive Data Analytics

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2 Oct. 2019, 17:00-19:30

Microsoft Tech Talk: From Agile to DevOps

Microsoft Tech Talk and networking session for students and alumni. Our expert and software engineer Andrea Tino will share his knowledge on DevOps.

5 Oct. 2019, 10:00-16:00

Danish Championship in programming 2019

Are you aiming at becoming this year's Danish champion in programming? Here's your chance!

8 Oct. 2019, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Proof-Carrying Code

On 8 October Andrzej Filinski,  associate professor in the Programming Languages and Theory of Computing section at DIKU, will present his talk "Proof-Carrying Code".

8 Oct. 2019, 14:30-19:00

Women in Tech – Ada Lovelace Day 2019

Come and celebrate Ada Lovelace Day 2019 with DIKU and 3Shape on 8 October 2019.

15 Nov. 2019, 13:15

PhD defence by Stina Matthiesen

Stina Matthiesen will defend her PhD thesis titled: Stereotyping in Globally distributed Collaboration - A CSCW Thesis on Global Software Development.

20 Nov. 2019, 9:00

PhD defence by Niklas Hjuler

On the November 20th Niklas Hjuler will defend his PhD titled 'Algorithms and AI in Education'.

20 Nov. 2019, 13:00-17:30

What can (AI) research do for your company? Or your research work

An open half day conference co-hosted by DIKU Business Club, the SCIENCE AI Centre, IDAS and Industriens Fond focusing on research collaboration.

20 Nov. 2019, 15:30

PhD defence by Stephan Sloth Lorenzen

Stephan Sloth Lorenzen will defend his PhD thesis titled : Learning from Educational Data - Improving Methods and Theoretical Guarantees for Data Mining.

17 Dec. 2019, 12:15-13:00

DIKU Bits: Digital natural history: Digitizing butterflies and beetles

On 17 December Kim Steenstrup Pedersen, Associate professor in the Image Analysis, Computational Modelling and Geometry section at DIKU will present his DIKU Bits talk "Digital natural history: Digitizing butterflies and beetles"